Selected quad for the lemma: lord_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	david_n	king_n	solomon_n	11,542	5	9.1098	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A97260	A precious mithridate for the soule made up of those two poysons, covetousness and prodigality the one drawn from the fathers ill qualities: the other from the sons: for the curing of both extremes, and advancing frugality, the mean. Being foure chapters taken out of R. Junius his Christian library, and are to be sold by J. Crump stationer in Little Bartolmes Well-yard, and H. Crips in Popeshead-ally.	Younge, Richard.	1661 (1661)	Wing Y174A; ESTC R230788	14,240	16

till it be quite unravelled and then too late complains that the stock of his wealth ran coarse at the fag end His father had too good an opinion of the world and he too much disdaines it onely herein he speeds as he thinks a little the better for that those who barked at hit father like curs faune upon him and lick his hand like Spaniels Yea the Prodigalls case is herein better then the Misers for the Prodigal shall only have nothing hereafter but the Covetous man hath nothing here nor hereafter He bestows upon his inferiors liberal gifts thinking it good gain to receive for it good words and your Worship Thus by the frequent use of substracting pounds out of hundreds shillings out of pounds and pence out of shillings the end of his account proves all Cyphers Idleness is the Coach that brings a man to Needam prodigality the post-horse His fathter was no mans friend but his own and sayes the proverb is no mans foe else be he never so old he never attains to the yeers of discretion And in case providence do not take him ward his heirs shall never be sought after His Vessel hath three leaks a lascivious eye a gaming hand a deified belly and to content these he can neither rule his heart his tongue nor his purse He never proves his own man till he hath no other and then perhaps when want or good counsel or time hath made him see as much as his father did at last he sues for a Room in an Almeshouse that his father built else when he feels want for till then he never sees it he complains of greatness for ingratitude that he was not thought of when promotions were a dealing Yet seeing there is ho remedy but patience when his last Acre lies in his purse he projects strange things and builds houses in the aire having sold those on the ground Not that he is a man of parts for he is onely witty to wrong and undoe himself Ease saith Solomon slayeth the foolish and the prosperity of fools de stroyeth them Prov. 1.31 CHAP. 3. MAny an one hath his father unfeathered to warm him but pride drunkenness gamming c. plucks them away again so fast that he soon becomes naked and bare He is like a barren plot of ground for let him receive never so much seed and manuring Sun and showers he remaines ever dry and fruitlesse and no marvail when not onely his leud and vicious course bring Gods curse upon all he hath or takes in hand but when he and what he hath is also anted for his fathers sake For whereas the Holy Ghost saith of the just man His seed shall be mighty upon earth his generation shall be blessed c. Psal 112.2 and many the like Psal 103. where God hath promised to blesse and reward the children yea the childrens children for their fathers goodnesse vers 17. Isa 58.10 11.12 Psal 37.25 26 112.2 to 6. Of which I might give you examples not a few The children of Noah were preserved from drowning for their fathers sake Gen. 7.1 Mephibosheth fares the better for his fathers goodnesse The Kenites for Jetbroes 1 Sam. 15.6 and that some hundreds of yeers after their Ancester was dead Phineas his seed for his sake Numb 25 11 12 13. Solomon for his father Davids sake 2 Sam. 1.2 Ishmael for Abrahams sake Gen. 17.20 And all Isarel fared the better for Abraham Isaac and Iacobs sake Deut. 4.37 1 Kings 11.12 The loving-kindnesse of the Lord sayes the Psalmist indureth for ever and ever upon them that fear him and his righteousnesse upon childrens children Psal 103.17 Exod. 20.6 And as God usually blesseth and rewardeth the children for their fathers goodness so on the contrary Exod. 20.5 Eternal payments God uses to require of the persons only temporary oftentimes of succession as we sue the Heirs and Executors of our Debtors God hath peremptorily told us that he will visit the iniquity of ungodly parents upon their children unto the third and fourth generation Exod. 20.5 As for the sin of Haman his ten sons were hanged Hester 9.13 14. And so for Sauls sin his seven sons were likewise hanged 2 Sam. 21.6 and thus for Achans sin all his sons and daughters were stoned to death and burned with fire by the Commandment of Moses who was in Gods stead Iosh 7 Yea God hath peremtorily threatned Psal 109. that the children of a cruel and unmercifull man shall be Vagabonds and beg their Bread and that none shall extend mercy or favor unto them ver 7. to 17. God will make those children beggers for whose sakes the fathers have made so many beggers this is a truth which the father will not beleeve but as sure as God is just the Son shall feel As what common and daily experience have we thereof had men but the wit to observe it for hence it is that riches ill got shift Masters so often As rare it is if the wealth of an Oppressor doth last to the fourth generation seldom to the second for commonly in this case as the father was the first that raised his house by his extreme getting and saving so the son proves the last in overthrowing his house by excessive spending and lavishing as Tullius Cicero answered a Prodigal that told him he came of beggerly parents for no man when his means is gone will ever after trust him with a stock to begin the world again the case standing with him as it did with the unjust Steward who having wasted his masters goods for the time past could not be trusted with the like for the time to come and whereas hitherto he hath with Esan rejected the blessing of prosperity it will be denyed him hereafter though he should seek it with tears and which is worse then all if death find him as is much to be feared as banquerupt of spiritual as of Worldly goods it will send him to an eternal prison for what can we think of them that do not onely lose crusts and crummes which our Saviour would have carefully gathered up John 6.12 but even lavish and wherle away whole patrimonies yea most wickedly spend them in riot and upon Dice Drabs Drunkenness O the fearful account which these unthrifty Bayliffs will one day have to give up to our great Lord and Master when he shall call them to a strict reckoning of their talents if he was condemned that encreased not the sum concredited to him what then shal become of him that lawlesly and lavishly spends and impaires it bringing in such a reckoning as this Item spent upon my lusts pleasures and pride fourty years and five hundred or ten thousand pounds c. let them be in their right senses they cannot thin that God will take this for a good discharge of their Steward-ships though the devil may and will make them beleive that Christ will quit all scores between him the father and them And thus I have made it